romance
\ʁɔ.mɑ̃s\
The verdict
“romance” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,855
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poème espagnol en vers généralement octosyllabiques (les vers pairs étant assonancés et les impairs libres) et qui traite de sujets historiques, épiques, amoureux, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-romance · romance · French
romance · rank #12,855 · 10 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,855
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retomber
Nearest frequency peer: retomber (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « romance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rencontrées
rencontrées
87,149 corpus weight
- res
res
87,148 corpus weight
- retomber
retomber
87,147 corpus weight
- romance
romance
87,146 corpus weight
- royaumes
royaumes
87,145 corpus weight
- ruth
ruth
87,143 corpus weight
What this shows « romance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | romance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « romance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around romance (IPA \ʁɔ.mɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,855 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for romance, with forms such as "ormance", "rmoance", and "roamnce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "romans", "romane", "romano", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is romance, spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Poème espagnol en vers généralement octosyllabiques (les vers pairs étant assonancés et les impairs libres) et qui traite de sujets historiques, épiques, amoureux, etc.
- 2Chanson tendre ou plaintive.
- 3Air sur lequel se chante une romance.
- 4Ce qui marque une certaine sensibilité banale.
- 5Relation romantique.
- 6Style de littérature consacrée aux aventures amoureuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how romance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Corneille] ne nous a fait connaître qu’une très-faible partie des dicts, faits et gestes du Cid contenus dans les quatre ou cinq premières romances.
[…] on voit surgir l’épopée espagnole dans ces fameuses romances, qui forment pour l’Espagne une gloire à part […] où sont enregistrées toutes les luttes et les beautés de son histoire […] et qui ont réfléchi […] l’élégance et la galanterie des Maures, sans jamais perdre ce sévère caractère catholique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ormance
- rmoance
- roamnce
- romacne
- romancce
- romanec
- romannce
- rommance
- romnace
- rromance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of romance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).